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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Record Producer
Television Producer
Writer
Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
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I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.
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I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Meditation helps everything.
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Service is the key to everything in life.
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A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, If you curse, then you're going to hell. But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.
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There are no failures, only quitters.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.
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Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!
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Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
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86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated.
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The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.
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If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.
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In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind.
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It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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